Title: |
Yarnton-Cassington Project: Annual Review 1996 |
Number of Pages: |
14 |
Biblio Note |
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Publication Type: |
Report
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Abstract: |
Excavations were carried out at several sites as part of the Yarnton-Cassington project. At Yarnton Cresswell Field, part of a Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age settlement was investigated. An adult inhumation with a single sherd of Bronze Age pottery was found within a possible Neolithic enclosure. An infant burial and a second adult inhumation were also found. Early Bronze Age pits, later Bronze Age domestic features and Iron Age features were revealed. A human skull, animal burials and smashed pots were found within a small number of features. A Romano-British enclosure and two ditches were also recorded. Early medieval remains included a timber hall, fences, weaving equipment and sunken-featured buildings. Two enclosures may also have been of this date. At Yarnton Floodplain B (1995), clusters of Neolithic and Bronze Age pits and post holes were found, and Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age houses were recorded. Burials or 'special' deposits and eight cremations were recorded in the vicinity of a probable Neolithic long mortuary enclosure, found in 1993. The area had been cleared of woodland prior to construction of the enclosure; regeneration of tree cover had occurred before final clearance in the Early Bronze Age. [Au(adp)] |
Author: |
Gill Hey
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Publisher: |
Oxford Archaeology
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Year of Publication: |
1996
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Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1996
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: YARNTON-CASSINGTON PROJECT Study area: Investigation type: Post-determination/Research District: Cotswold, West Oxfordshire Monument: CREMATION. PIT Late Prehistoric (ie Neolithic - Iron Age), ENCLOSURE. DITCH Roman (AD43-410), ENCLOSURE. Late Prehistoric (ie Neolithic - Iron Age), HALL. FENCE GRUBENHAUS [finds] Early Medieval (410-1066), HALL HOUSE. FENCE GRUBENHAUS [finds] Early Medie Ngr: SP45001000, SP00470012 Parish: Cassington, Cirencester Postcode: OX294EU, GL7 6PY
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Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |